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The Water Battery
Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 1, 2008
Caption: The Water Battery
Additional Description: Endicott era structures disrupted some of the water battery, but still visible are the bombproofs, gun platforms, the scarp, ditch, and glacis. One of the structures appears to have a chimney, indicating it may have housed the hot shot furnace. The furnace would heat solid shot, which when fired at wooden ships, could cause fires.
Submitted: June 1, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p24741
File Size: 1.483 Megabytes

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